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To Urbana and Back Again: A Student’s Tale

Posted on February 1, 2013April 6, 2021 by ptsblog

  Every three years, thousands of college students and leaders descend upon the city of St. Louis for the Urbana Missions Conference. In 2013 PTS sent a small group of seminarians to be a part of the high energy, cross-cultural missions extravaganza and represent the Seminary to perspective students. My wife and I were incredibly…

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Doxology

Posted on January 25, 2013April 6, 2021 by ptsblog

I keep a lot of the little notes of encouragement that students leave on my desk to look at when times are tough. They’re awesome: Hi J…stay awesome. You are the coolest. Thanks for everything. I swear your prayers helped me. And indeed, when times are tough I need only look just beyond my computer…

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To Keep the Dream Alive

Posted on January 18, 2013April 6, 2021 by ptsblog

  In class one of my professors, Dr. Tuell, shared with us a few of his favorite Martin Luther King Jr. quotes, and it got me thinking which one would I consider my favorite.  Though admittedly the reservoir of King’s speeches in my brain is fairly limited, the portion I am going to share is…

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